Motivational Quotes

Government

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

- Gladstone, William E.

Best Quotes about Government

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Russell, Bertrand

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.